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K. ALFRED MELLON'S CONCER rS EVERY EVENING, at Light.—ROYAL ITALIAN ()Pr,EA, COVENT -GARDEN. The forowing Artistes will appear This Evening C ar l o tta Patti, Mdlle. Marie Krebs ; Mr. Levy, Mr. Carrodus, Ali Ben Sou-alle. and Mr. Alfred Mellen's GLEE IJIvION, Grand Operatic Selection from LA FAVORITA. BAND OF ONE 1117NDBED PERFORMERS. Conductor, Mr. ALFRED MELLON. p r omenade, Amphitheatre Stall s, and Amphitheatre, One To-morrow (Saturday\ the First Vo7unteer Night. __- ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. THIS EVENING, BORN TO GOOD LUCK. Faddy O'Rafferty, Mr. Dominick Murray. Alter which, THE STREETS OF LONDON. Messrs. Vining, J. W. Ray, D. Fi her. D. Murray, J. Nelson, H. .Forre,ter. H. Mellon ; 3irs. Henry Marston, Miss Emma varnett, and Miss F..nny Gwynne. INIT EW THEATRE-ROY AL, ADELPIIL riote Proorif4or and Manager. Mr. R. Webster. TILTS EVENING, THE FLOWERS OF THE FOREST. aessrs. J. L. Tool, P. Bedford, Billingfon, Stuart Stephen n ,KODIcr; Miss Woolgar, Miss K. Kelly. and g ars. Bil figion. After which, at 10, THE ACTOR'S RETREAT. Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, It. Philli,.s, and Miss Woolg..r 'to conclude with a new Farce, called MY WIVE' MAID. Mess rs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, It. Phillips, and Mr-. Alfred Mellon. Commence at 7. ROYAL ma ST. e JA mentM? S g 'S . ' B f 1-14.ABTsill,a under the o Last Night of the present Season. THIS EVENING (Friday), 12th August, fur the Benefit of Mr. ana Mrs. Chas. Mathews, and last night of their engage mew, a ilew Comedy, in 3 acts, by Arthur Sket hleY, Esq. - At 7 o'clock the perform.nce will commence with an en- At IT ? Character, by Mr. and Mrs. C. tirely new and original ( omedY, entitled HOW WILL THEY GET OUT 0 Mathews, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Matthews, Mr. F. tiobinson, 31r. 11. J. Montague, Aisg Wentworth, and ars. Stirring. To be followed by the new Travestie, entitled FAUST AND MA.B.GUERITE : Mr. Chas. Mathews, Mr. J. Clarke, M r. Ashley. ar. Manstague. Mr. W. H. Eburne, Mr. W. Chamberiaine, and Mr , C. 3lathew.,. Miss To co. ncludrell. Ashley, and , Cott --- C "' NTRY and SEASIDE DRESSES. Messrs. JAY, of Reo•ent-street, have now In stock a variety of WASHING billi Diti.l4S.NS, suitatle for the country and seaside, and at the c.earing-out price of only £1 115. 6d. the dress. JAY'S, 247, 249, and 251, Regent-street. )LACK SILKS.—The price of Silks in the raw JLO material has already r sen 15 per cent., and it will soon rC,I4. h a far greater per-centage. Messrs. JAY, thereto, e, iavii e their numerous patrons to take adv4ntage of the stock they have on hand, which they can now dispose of on favour able terms ; but the same qualities will natur bo more Costly ,aa the price of silk fluctuates to a higher average JAY'S, 217, 219, and 251, Regent-street. COALS. —The LILLESHALL COMPANY'S COALS. Direct from their own Collieries. Marquis'. . .235. per ton. I Double 20s . per ton. Top 225. „ p Well screened and delivered within five miles of their De pots, Westbounae Park-road, W., and 17, South Wharf, ,Paddington, W.. and Maiden-lane, N. Best Coke Terms cash. JOHN SCOTT, Sole Lgent TAE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," containing the Latest SPORTING - INTELLIGENCE, 0...4a be had Every Evening of G. R. GLENIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. THE LATEST EDITION of "THE SUET" supplied, as soon as published every Evening by II •, , ,NR BROOKS, Newspaper Agent, 24, Old Cavendisti street, W. The Weather—Sun Office, Aug, 12, 1864. --.1P.--- THEI3.3IOSIETEA. This day at Two o'clock 65 _ Barometer-30 . 2 6 . WIND—S.W. ; moderate breeze, and cloudy. IEIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tam DAY.—Mornin g, Bh. 10m.—Afternoon, Bh. 45m o-Koaßow.-Morning, 9z. 26m.—Afternoon, 10h. 24m qr'is r 't T r MI **IP 1 / 4 'l / 4 ' 11.3 ' t 4#4k LONDON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 1864. The waning of the splendour of our flower gar acne is amnng the regular signs of the passing away o f summer ; and the autumnal months, though lighting the monarchs of the woods with tints and shades . which some think eclipse even the fresh ver dure of the spring, are only looked to by the hum b:e floriculturist as bringing the first signs of decay and desolation. The limited gardens in the metropolis and its vicinity generally give early evidence of the change, perhaps because their owners are in the habit of taking flight themselves early in autumn, And are therefore indifferent to the appearance of their gardens and conservatories when the reign of the rose is over. There is very little doubt that, with proper care in the selection of plants, and a due regard. to their natural seasons for flowering, a garden even in this climate may be induced to pre serve a cheerful appearance through the greater part of the year. This is the fact which Sir JOSEPH PAXTON, no mean authority in the art of external decoration, has taken the opportunity of bringing under public notice in a letter addressed to the assistant secretary of the Royal Horticultural So ciety. Now the din of Parliamentary battle is for awhile suspended, and argument, lamentation, and recrimination have hem well nigh exhausted about the Danish Duchies—while the American war goes on its endless round, and we have no more exciting subject to divert our attention than murders and suicides, experiments at Shoeburyness, and madmen in railway carriages, Sir JOSEPH PAXTON pro bably supposes that his remarks on the principles of horticulture generally are less likely to pass una heeded than in the earlier days of the season. Per haps he thought, too, that the moral of his story would receive a better illustration now than when flowers abound on every side, and botanic shows and exhibitions are the order of the day. It is with regard to the merits and defects of these exhibitions that Sir JOSEPH PAXTON has written his letter, having been requested to give his opinion as to the nature and character of the exhibitions which it is most desirable that the Royal Horticultural Society should encourage tor "the true advancement of horticulture and its accompanying sciences. In the first place, Sir JOSEPH is by no means satisfied with the existing state of things, notwithstand ing the gorgeous array visible at some of our flower shows. The general condition of our horticulture is he considers artificial and unnatural, and he attributes this principally to the arrange ment of our exhibitions. They have, he considers, been advantageous in encouraging improvements in the culture and management of plants, but the good which they have ef f ected has not been unmixed. O wing to the time of the year in which they are held, the Efforts of cultivators are exclusively directed to the production of such plants as will bloom at the London season, to the total disregard of ail other periods. Some plants are forced, others are artificially kept back, so that all may flower together, thus crowding into a month or two the ornament s o f th e year, and entirely neglect ing those plants which will not submit to such meddlesome interference. Some years ago, the .:ritic tells us, he called to see a first class Lona don garden of great repute. It was an exhib;tion day, and so only a few lonely plants were visible. Aga i n h e called later in the season, but a e show days were altog ether over, BO there was no more to be seen, for the training system h% d begun, and all s in preparation for the next year' s compet i t i on. If the efforts of the Horticultural Society are directed to/ securing the greatest number and most beautiful display of plants in the haltdozen exhi bition days of the London season they are certainly successful, but if their object is rather to en courage horticulture as a science, then th e se "spasmodic efforts," as Sir JOSEPH PAXTON terms them, which leave a refit part of the year unemployed and unproductive, are not altogether satisfactory. The exhibition system has certainiy succeeded in producing a wonderful degree of perfection in those kinds of flow ers which are exhibited, and they have also given a stimulus to the culture of foliage plants which preserve a garden from the desolation of winter, eta: there. remains a good deal more to be done before the objects of the society are fully attained. Tb e true object of horticulture, according to Sir JOSEPH PAXTON'S view, is "to increase the enjoyment de■ rivable from it, and to diffuse it as widely as pos. sible ; to enable tha owners of gardens to get the greatest amount of pleasure and sat►sfaction from their possessions, and to' enable the general public to procure the greates c number of fruit, flowers, and vegetables, in tne greatest quantity, of the best kinds, and at the cheapest prices." These are certainly all matters of public concern, and, indeed, since the new fashion of choosing suburban residences bas been so exten sively followed, great numbers are interested in the consideration of the best method of gardening, who of old scarcely gave a thought to the matter. It is one of the most graceful of sciences, while the cul ture of these beautiful works oZ nature is among the most innocent and healthful of recreations for the mind and exhausted energies. Its tendency is soothing and refining, and is to be by no means despised as a means of diffusing taste and cultiva tion. Let us see how Sir JOSEPH PAXTON proposesito encourage this taste. There should, he thinks, be something like a continuous exhibition, so that gardeners should have no interest in forcing their plants into flower at unnatural seasons, nor should they be induced to neglect those which blossom at un fashionable times of the year. At one time the Horticultural Society had fortnightly shows at their great room in Regent-street, where nursery men brought their new plants or fruits, or any unusually beautiful specimens at any time of the year. This was, Sir JOSEFH thinks, a very bene ficial practice, and he proposes that something of the kind should be restored. During the spring and summer months he would have the exhibitions weekly, and have them held in a place where they might be suffered, when owned by nurserymen, to remain all the time they were in flower. This would be independent of the great exhibitions which are too beautiful and too fashionable to be altogether abandoned, but some supplementary effort of the kind would probably do great good. Weekly or fortnightly exhibitions would probably be too frequent at least at first, but monthly or quarterly shows might with advantage be esta blished. At all events the question is sufficiently interesting to deserve attentive consideration. The Report of the Directors of Convict Prisons is now published, and its contents are sure to attract attention at this juncture, since so much excitement has prevailed on the subject for some time, and during the past session so much pains was taken to effect some desirable changes in the department re lating to convict discipline. It was time that the question again underwent revision, for grievous errors had crept into the management, and if no thing of a remedial nature had been done it is diffi cult to say at what point the evil would have stopped, and at all events it wouid have been more tedious to make a change. The greatest care and attention appears generally to be exercised by the authorities whose special duty it is to have the supervision of these unhappy outcasts ; but it is a very difficult thing to determine which is the best mode of treatment, and after the mature delibera• tions of experienced men of all kinds, the matter has to be left to the test of practice. That teat has shown us that the latest attempt to temporise with crime, as it were, has been an utter failure. Stern and vigorous treatment is the only right coarse to pursue; it is useless to adopt a line of action which may make the working of the prison routine more easy and successful for the time, but infallibly re. sults in the production of serious evils, both to the men themselves and society at large. Two causes of the late plan pursued of rendering the term of imprisonment so easy to pass and so shorn of the terrors of the law tended to swell the lists of returned prisoners. In the first place, the notion of penal ser• vitude was in a great measure divested of its horrors by the facile manner in which the prisoners were treated; and, secondly, the easy life passed in their bondage did not improve the check that a course of salutary discipline would most probably have effected. On all accounts it is very satisfactory to know that a change has come over the spirit of this dream of utopian convict life, for the reaction would have been great after ECI much false laxity and moderation had been shown. The plans now pro posed are but simple modifications of the system, bat they are begun in the right spirit, and if not four.d to be sufficiently stringent, it will be easy to make still more severe regulations. The Directors have made a most elaborate statement, and been at great pains to present a fair estimate of the state of each prison. It will be seen that the ticket-of leave system was in want of some change in consequence of the number of re - convictions. The number of the female prisoners who were re convicted has hitherto been much less than that of the males, hut of late years there has been a great increase. The cause of this unhappy augmentation has been said to be the " comparatively short sen tences of recent years, the want of means for assisting and supervising them on discharge, and in some degree, perhaps, from defective prison arrangements." Doubtless the short sentences that have been passed of late years have done great harm, for in the cases of the most desperate assaults it has often happened that a most inade quate term for confinement has been apportioned. It is a most unwise thing, for the ends of justice are not answered by this leans, and all reports agree in denouncing the practice. The criminals come to consider the whole affair of the trial, sen tence, and imprisonment, as a sort of farce, and one merely to be got through as quick as possible. The question of providing shelter and. employment for the discharged prisoners, especially the female ones, is a very serious consideration. It is a pain. ful picture which the returns present to us of these fallen creatures, driven from one place to another, till in sheer desperation they are often compelled to take refuge with their old associates. Besides, the prisoners who show every desire to become reformed members of society, the wavering and even evil dis posed might often be reclaimed if the right means were at hand on a timely opportunity. It is im possible to define a limit to the number who would be induced to change their ways, if immediately after they emerge from the quiet and comparative innocence of their course in prison some fitting em ployment were ready for them. This again proves the desirability of sending convicts who are sentenced for lung periods to Western Australia. Their removal would leave more ecope for their confederates in crime whose shorter sentences send them out again on the world after a brief period of detention. In the contemplation of reports many only look to the sta. tistical part of the affair, as to how many suffered imprisonment, for what cause they were convicted, and hove often they were re-convicted ; but apart from these established facts there are grave matters to reflect upon concerning the inner details of.those lives of which we are furnished with the broad on te lines. Until some important change has been effected in that branch of prison management which zefers to the career of the prisoner atter he has THE SUN, LONDOY, FIaDAY EVENING, AUGUST 12, 1864. left prison, there will always be much to deplore and lament in the returns presented to notice every successive year. Some very desirable changes have been made at Millbank, in pursuance of the advice tendered by the Commission of 1863. The period of separate confinement which each convict has to undergo at the commencement of his term of imprisonment has been rendered more in accordance with the spirit of such a sentence, than only the latter, as has hitherto been too much the case, and already some beneficial changes have been observed. It has also been agreed upon to alter the dietary in the prisons, and in conscquence of this revolution an amended form has been instituted, which involves a very large reduction in the old scale of diet. Nearly one day's food in the week has been struck off the aggregate allowance. Thiel is a very wise alteration, and it is to be hoped that the same course will be pursued in all prisons, and persisted in notwithstanding any temporary out breaks or disturbances that may result therefrom. It stands to reason that the old fashion of pamper ing prisoners was a very impolitic one, and likely to be productive of the worst effects as regarded discipline, and involving a salutary change in the lives and dispositions of these men. The arrange ments have also been altered regarding the publics work prisons, and more strict rules laid down. The sub-divisions made will make separation between the prisoners more thap has hitherto been the case, and this again will doubtless operate to effect a salutary change, it having been shown that there were "evils attendant on the massing together of such large bodies of convicts as are assembled on the public works." A very satisfactory account is given of the successes met with by the Prisoners' Aid Society. It is stated that no less than five hundred and odd cases were undertaken by it in one year, and the large majo. rity of these were satisfactorily provided for. At the conclusion of this report a very proper tribute is paid to the memory of Sir JOSHUA JEBB, • With. out doubt he rendered great and important services to the State by the zeal and ability which he dis played in the conduct of the intricate affairs which he was called upon to manage, and it is truly stated here that, whatever changes recent experience may deem desirable, " no one conversant with the state of the hulks and English prisons when he was called on by the Government to undertake their manage ment, can fail to acknowledge the debt of gratitude that is due to the late Sir JOSUHA JEBB." BANK OF FRANCE. (REUTER'S EXPRESS.) PARIS, August 11. The following is the return of the Bank of France for the week, together with the corresponding figures of the previous account : AUGUST 11. AUGUST 4. DR. f. C. t. C. Capital of the Bank 182,500,000 182,500,000 Profits in addition toCapital (Art. 8 law June 9, 1 1857) 5,114,862 48 5,096,101 60 Reserve in. the Bank and its branches Reserve in landed property 4,000,000 4,000,003 Notes in circulation 777,023,925 786,619,625 Bank notes to order and re- • ceipts payable at sight 6,233,349 15 6,056,549 08 Treasury aco. cur, creditor 57,968,339 40 55,911,233 85 Curreutaccounts—Paris 122,251,979 44 126,954,304 14 Do. branch-banks 26,611,833 30,859,5t/1 Dividends payable Discounts and sundry . _ interests 7,124,840 91 6,308,241 16 Re-discounts of the last sia months 2,588,735 17 2,588,735 17 Sundries 1,231,833,445 85 1,247,860,613 46 CR. Cash in hand and branch- banks 272,433,487 38 276,790,392 90 Commercial bills overdue 3,246,818 11 Commercialbillsdiscour.ted f,1923,552 95 not yet due ,...330,403,019 35 333,825,422 33 Do. branch-banks . 303,092,556 312,079,470 Advances on deposits of bullion Do. branch• banks 3,957,700 4,104,300 Advances on Frenchpublic securitiest Do, branch-banks 9,412,860 9,511,650 Advanceson rail way shares and debentures Do. branch-banks 18,704,050 18,671,060 Advances on Credit Fon- cier Bonds 395,000 376,100 Do. branch-banks.... 356,900 367,100 Advances to the State (Cony En. June 10, 1857) 60,000,000 60,000,000 Govt. Stock Reserve 12,b80,750 14 12,980,760 14 Do. disposable Rentes immobilisees (Law June 9, 1857) Hotel and furniture of the Bank Landed property, branches Expenses of management 712,921 64 690,476 54 Sundries ' 2 441,833,445 85 1,247,860,613 46 Certified by the Ho:otary Vioe-President of the Council of State, Governor of th e Bank, AD. TVITIOC. The Aospital for Consumption, Brompton, A quarterly general court of the governors of this charity was held yesterday afternoon in the board room of the hospital. The meeting was pre sided over by Sir Peter Van Notten-Pole, Bart. The Secretary read the report of the eommittee of management for the past quarter, which stated that both as regarded in and out-patients there had been cal increase of good done as compared with the corresponding quarter of the preceding year. It was, no doubt, chiefly owing to the large number of admissions consequent upon the maximum number of 210 beds having been filled at an earlier period of the winter than usual that the committee was enabled to have the satisfaction of announcing that the number of applicants waiting vacancies was, though still large, less than it had been for some time past. The committee had been encouraged by the accession of several names to the list of gover nors, and by much valuable aid they had received from the clergy, while their thanks were especially due to the Bishops of Ripon, Bangor, Ety, Ossory, and Down and Connor for the able manner in which they had pleaded the cause of the charity. Many kind donations had aleo resulted from the appeals inserted from time to time in the newspaperb, al though the total amount received from tnat source had been less than on some previous occasions. Unless, however, the committee chose to suffer the charity to languish for want of funds they had nu alternative but to continue their appeals to the pub lic for support in every way that was open to them, so long as the annual expenditure of the institution exceeded the annual subscriptions to the extent of upwards of £4,000. With the help of several lega cies that had recently been paid the committee hoped to be enabled before long to effect the desir able object they had long aimed at, and which had peen formerly mentioned, namely, the purchasing of the freehold of the land on which the hospital was built. During the past quarter four bequests to the charity of £lOO each, one of £l,OOO, one of £5OO, one of £3OO, one of £5O, and one of £lO had been announced to the committee. The number of in-patients admitted since the 26th of May last had been 213. Of these 182 had been discharged, Tony of them greatly benefited, and 23 had died. The number of new out patient cases was stated to be 1,521. The Hon. E. B. C. WROTTESLEY moved the adoption of the report, which having been seconded by Mr C. E. K. Butler, was adopted; and after the transaction of some business of a formal cha racter, the proceedings closed with the customary vote of thanks to the chairman. CROSSING VIE ATLANTIC IN A BOAT.--On Sunday, the 26th of June, the miniature brig Vision, the smallest craft that has ever yet attempted to cross the Atlantic, departed from the Battery at New York, direct for Liverpool. She sailed out in gallant style, with colours flying, manned by a crew consisting of John C. Donovan and his dog Toby, and one man, named Williams, from Rhode Island, Her departure was witnessed by a large number of people, who remained, despite the inlense heat, until the vessel became a speck on the water. Yes terday we received 'information that the Coronet, frpro Quebec, at London, had spoken the tiny Craft at sea, she being then out 24 days, and having reached let. 45 10 N., long. b 3 W., or the vicinity of Cape Race. "All hands' were well, but short of provisions and water, which the Coronet supplied,—,Lfrwpotl Afercury, LATEST INTELLIGENCE. LRETITER'S TELEGRAMS.] AMERICA. Per the Extra Steamer Caledonian via Cape Race and Greencastle.) NEW YORK, AUG. 1. On the 30th ult. General Grant blew up a Con federate fort at Petersburg. He then assaulted and carried a line of Confederate entrenchments. Au entire regiment was destroyed together with the fort. The battle was still progressing on Saturday at noon. THE BOMBAY MAIL. The following telegram has been received at Mr. Reuter's office from the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company : SUEZ, AUG. 11. The Behar from Bombay, July 24, reached Suez at 7 p.m. today. WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, AUG. 12. The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's ship Seine, with the above mails, has arrived here. She brings 177 passengers, 2,585,301 dollars in specie, and 1,183 plickages of general cargo. The Seine left St. Thomas on the 28th nit. Fine weather prevailed. Her Majesty's ship Devastation left Panama GU the 11th ult. for Vancouver's Island. At Valparaiso the Congress was engaged in reor ganising the various courts of justice in the Repub lic, and planning the statutes of a National Bank. The deputies are exasperated at the Cabinets withholding from them the correspondence on the Hispans-Peruvian question. The smallpox was infesting the northern pro vinces. At Huaeco 400 persons were .suffering from the epidemic. Frequent and strong earthquakes were felt at Valparaiso and the neighbouring districts. In Peru the utmost exertions were used by the Government to have all war vessels in readiness, when it is ascertained how the Spanish Admiral will act on receipt of fresh instructions. Nothing further had transpired relating to the difficulty between Spain and Peru. Valparaiso exchange on London 440 to 45d; on Paris, 4.65 to 4.70. Lima exchange, 37d per dollar. News from Santo Domingo announces that the Dominicans had entrenched themselves around Puerto Plata, but failed to do much damage. They had suffered considerably from five Spanish guns. The Spanish steamer Hamburg, arrived at Havana with 400 wounded and sick from Santo Domingo. A correspondent writing from Santo Domingo, says that large numbers of rebels are preparing to make a last effort at Santiago de los Caballeros. The discouragement amongst the Dominicans gains ground, and the insurrection is fast coming to an end. At Demerera general business was quiet, rum was in fair demand, sugar dull, tonnage ample, weather showery but favourable to the crops. Freight of sugar to London 30d. Exchange on London 476 dots. A favourable change has taken place in the weather at Barbadoes, and the prospects of the planters were encouraging, The health of the island was good. Exchange on London, 485 dole. Rum, abundant. At Grenada, sugar cane, cotton, and cocoa were in a promising condition. Business was rapidly improving. The prospects of next year's crops at Jamaica was encouraging. Sugar sales, 255. to 265. per hundred pounds. Burn, 275. per gallon. Tobacco dull. Coffee scarce. Sales, 60s. to 625. Exchange, half per coat. premium for 90 days. LATEST FROM BERMUDA. LIVERPOOL, AUG. 11. The ffne steamer Hayti, Captain Gilberry, be longing to the West India and Pacific Steamship Company (Limited), arrived in the Mersey last night, with dates from Bermuda to the 27th ult. She brings a large and valuable cargo, including upwards of 500 bales of cotton. The following blockade runners were at Bermuda :—The steamers Dieppe, Flamingo, Mary Bowers, and Lillian. The latter had put back in consequence of her crew having refused to proceed on the voyage. The steamer Let her Rip sad arrived at Wilmington, and had been chartered by the Government for harbour duty. Captain Miffit, late of the Florida, had been ordered by the Confederate Government to the James River, to take command of an ironclad gun boat building there. The steamer Helen had sailed for Wilmington. SPAIN. MADRID, AUG. 12. The frigate Carmen has received orders to sail for the Pacific. A Catalonian commission has arrived at Madrid and will confer with th e G o vernment upon the means of terminating the industrial crisis. FRANCE. terday : "Avery heavy The bulletin of th e P ar i s Observatory gives the squall coming from the followi ng as th e a t mosp h er ic state of Europe yes , North of Europe has rapidly invaded the ce-ntre of the Continent, extending from the N E, of France to the greater part of Russia. There is reason to fear that it w i ll cont i nu e to fall as far as the Mediterran ean . Th e b aro meter bas rapidly risen on the west ern coasts o f E u rope, and the mistral is blowing on that of Provence. Atlantic, This squall, whi c h is probably not isolated, and the state of the winds and barom etr i ca l press ures on the coasts of the make us presu me that another is followi ng closely." B,ooofr. to 10,000 fr. a'Year 2 .fr. T The Illoniteur de la Flotte states that by a recent ; superior ooo 1 have i a n i s re , 5,000 fr.; c decree the tmlaries of the naval chaplains are fixed as fo llows s) 2 ; h:aop e olar h f a i.n p;s o 1 a2indf the -i class, n- fleet C hieet and f of the of thefleetp l o r r o t m s, elanlstl also an indemnity for lodging and furniture, and an allowance for the wine and wax lights used at the altar. BOURSE, Aug. 11.—The arrival of English Con sols with a rise of 4- has failed to produce any up ward movement in this market, which still continues in the same inanimate state. Threes, for the Ac. count, are unvaried at 66f. 45c, Mobilier have been done at 1,005 f., and are now at I,olof. Railway Shares show but slight variation, with little doing. The market closed as follows : 41 per Cents .. 95 Do. end 3 per Cents Do. end month 66 40 Jredit Mobilier..., 1007 50 Do. end month 1007 50 Bank Share s 3390 Credit wider 1215 Roman (Italian Loan 68 Do. end month 68 35 Ditto Threes — New Mexican 56 2,5 Russian Austrian — Spanish Threes 49 50 dome" Debt Deferred - RAM WAYS. Cash. ACCOUnt. 885 .. 885 980 - 0 9 ..00 +. 912 50 .. 916 25 °HUMS 0000000 is • • ; • • • • Northern .• . • Lyons and Mediterranean New ditto Southern 640 .. 641 25 Western . .615 .. Eastern Sardinian Austrian Loirbard North of Spain Saragossa 507 50 .. 507 50 Ditto to BArcelOha •• • • 232 50 ~ 235 —, LITERATURE. A National Benefactor's Autobiography. Passages of a Working Life during Half-a Century. By Charles Knight.. Vols. I. and IL Bradbury and Evans. Beginning life as a publisher and bookseller, the writer of this manly and charming autobiography has long since assumed to himself a yet more re cognisable position, and in his instance it is one of very considerable eminence, as a man of letters. Charles Knight we know now-a-days far more as a man of letters than as a publisher and leooleseller. Regarded in the latter capacit; - ne is to be seen only, as it were, in persPee'Lve. It seems to be a long while now since he ',opt a printing establishment at Windsor an a a bookshop in Pall Mall. We have to look beesa beyond a considerable interval even to recopise him as he was when he had his name issued fzom the press, across his own counter in Ludgate hill, at the bottom far more frequently than at about the middle of many a popular and widely circulating publication. Yet further beck, he has here intro duced himself to us at the very commencement of these ingenuous memorials of his Life—a life, let us say at once, as honourable from first to last as it has been laborious throughout—beyond the open ing of this present century, we there behold him as he appears to himself in his own retrospec- Live glance as among the earliest of his personal recollections —we there behold him yonder dwindled down, as it were, by a mere effort of distance into the appearance of a little child in a white frock and a black sash I A half• orphaned child, then but very recently bereft of his oung mother, and as, by a natural consequence of that event, fairly idolised by the poor sorrow stricken widower his father—a Windsor tradesman, more noticeable as a bookworm than as a bookseller. Between that far-off period and the present hour stretch back the years described in this truthful and graceful autobiography. The interval—as will be found, indeed, to have been pretty clearly intimated here upon our author's title-page—the goodly in terval extending between the Now and Men being matte up of fully Half-a-Century of a genuine Working Life—led off, that half century of a Work ing Lite, by a "Prelude of Early Recollections." The result of it all being—what is here most interestingly related by Mr Knight himself, but what we as among those numerous and grateful admirers of his,whom he has for years been helping so largely to benefit by his labours—knew to a great extent before any of these memorials appeared, knew, that is to say, from the mere facts and fruits of those very labours them selves. For, applying here that happy phrase of Wordsworth's about the child being father of the man, may we not put it thus—that the little child in the white frock and the black sash has developed into a man sufficiently noteworthy to be entitled, as we have here eagerly and gladly entitled him at the commencement of these remarks, namely, as " A National Benefactor ?" Is he not so ? Answer this —any number that may anywhere be found of really intelligent and educated Englishmen! For, in point of tact, in simplest truth, what are among the many conspicuous titles to our gratitude, towards Charles Knight as a Popular Benefactor ? He has done more practical good sere ice than any other English Worker that could be named in furthering the great cause of Popular Education. He has done single-handed among Englishmen in this cause, in the interests of this cause, in its general and comprehensive deve iopmeut, what William and Robert Chambers have done together among Scotctimen. And—without Deing in any way invidious while saying so—we would here add that Charles Knight has, in simple matter of fact, done yet more than those two emie vent popular publishers of Edinburgh. The com parison between the two houses, between that of the Englishman and that of the Scotchmen, has been originated, not by ourselves, but by one of our contemporaries. Therefore it is that, without any imputation of appearing invidious while doing so, we may here strenuously protest, as we feel constrained in fact to do, out of a mere sense of justice, we may here strenuously protest against any pre-eminence being accorded to Robert Chambers over Charles Knight. They are worthy rivals, they are worthy contemporaries ; but, if their names must be brought thus into di rect comparison, pre-eminence ought rather, to our mind, to be accorded, not as one of our contem poraries has accorded it, to the reputed author of the "Vestiges of Creation," but, on the contrary, to Charles Knight, to that " good grey head," to that honest right hand from which have emanated other nobler works, either wholly original or thoroughly and laboriously edited, works far and away beyond any deistical geological speculation upon cosmogony that ever was written For, has not Charles Knight taken his place recog nisably—among the Historians of England ? —among the Commentators on Shakspere ? among the moat luminous of our National Encyclof velists 1 0 —among the most skilled Topo graphers of London P—besides squandering broad cast over the land during fully one quarter of a century all those seeds of truth, scientific, artistic, and literary—seeds of truth sown by hire as the Publisher, as the Editor, as the Worker, in behalf and by the authority of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge ? To him we are indebted for that famous Penny Magazine that was the pioneer and forerunner of all our cheap and wholesome, of all our instructive and entertaining periodical publioations. Upwards of thirty years ago the " Penny Magazine," under the direction of Charles Knight, enjoyed (in 1832) an average circulation of 200,000 ! Yet, as Mr. Knight has himself been enabled to say now of that famous periodical, "in it there has never been a single sentence that could inflame a vicious appetite, and not a paragraph that could minister to prejudices and superstitions, which a few years since were common ; there have been no excitements for the lovers of the marvellous, no tattle or abuse for the gratification of a diseased taste for personality, and above all, no party politics." No wonder that in the following year the marvellous success achieved by the Penny 111,1gazine induced a man of Mr. Knight's enterprise to embark upon even so gigantic an undertaking as the publication (begun in 1833) of the 16:: 02 Y Cyclopodia. Upon the labours of Charles Knight nowever, as Publisher, as Editor, as Author, it were superfluous here to expatiate. They are known intimately and they are honoured accordingly. His "Pictorial Shakspere" is among the very noblest editions of the greatest of our national poets, the greatest of all poets. His " London" is the most comprehensive work upon the metropolis of Engs land, of the British Empire, of the World. His "Shilling Library" will always " hold its own among cheap and popular repertories of that character. His "History of England" —utterly mistaken though we ourselves deem so very many among its views to be—is more intensely national, is more thoroughly popular, is more com pletely a History of England, of the English People, and not merely of the English Sovereigns, than any other work upon the same subject that could be very readily mentioned. His Once upon a lime again turning here for a moment to his less ambitious and more miscellaneous productions— surely those who have read it, as we have done, with so thoroughly enjoyable a satisfaction, will speak of it only as a sort of model work of its class, being, as full as an egg is of meat, crammed from cover to cover with instructive entertainment. And Charles Knight's Autobiographic " Passages of a Working Life Daring Half a Century"--a work two.-thirds of which are happily completed, lying here before us in effect, as they do, in these two goodly volumes out just now submitted to our consideration—is a literary production that in the pervading style and manner of it, is very much of a-piece with the charmingly discursive pages last mentioned. Only here, in this later work, there is of course the added interest of a consecutive narrative, perfected, so speak, by that nameless ()harm which is in separable from all autobiographic confidences. As ,ffording a taste of the quiet humour fievouring the narrative of these memorials here—ea Mr. Knight'e comical illustrative mention of the manner in which justice was administered some half tecentury ago by .ne of the then magistracy : Under the guidance of the town clerk, corporate magis trates generally got through their business decently. Some times they wade little slips. Late in the evening an offender was brought before one of our mayors, having been detected in stealing a smock-frock from a pawnbroker's door. "Look in 'Burns's Justice,' " said his worship to his son; "look in the index for smock-frock." "Can't find it, father. Not there." " What Ino law against stealing smock-frocks D— my heart, young fellow, but you've had a lucky escape." Hardly so decorous appears to have been the system in vogue, about the same time, among those who had the management (even in a royal chapel) of the re ligious ceremonies of the Church as by Law Esta. blishw' • ex. gr.— I' have seen, says Mr. Knight, a stranger civilian stalk (with his spurs on) into the choir of St. George's Chapel. The spur was instantly detected ; and when the bewildered man was surrounded by a bevy of white surplices as ho loitered in the nave, there was no help for him but to pay the spur-money. Such interruptions to the beauty and solemnity of the service were not sufficient to prevent their abiding impres sions; and thus the salt of devotion was not wholly washed out of me. I was, however, well nigh rushing into the desert, in going through the ceremony which was to keep me in the fold. I had diligently prepared myself for confirmation. Dr Fisher, Bishop of Salisbury, was to perform the rite. There was an absence of all solemnity, and even of decency, upon which I look back with disgust. I still see the bishop's officers driving the young people to the altar rails as if they were sheep going to the fair ; the monotonous formality of the imposition t.f hands upon the huddled batches who knelt a few minutes, and then were chased back to their seats by the impatient ministers of the solemnity. Its failure altogether to mit fy my excited feelings compelled me into a passion of tears, and I went home and told my father that I would be a Quaker or Unitarian. I think that confirma tion confirmed whatever was sceptical in my composition ; and I had to escape into the region of natural piety, and long dwell there, before I could become reconciled to the estab lishment which could endure such profanations. As affording a very striking contrast between what is and what has been, the following account by Charles Knight of trio duties devolving half a century back upon one of the then Volunteers will be read with the liveliest interest, we doubt not, by our Victorian Riflemen. The Cambridge organisation was complete. At Windsor, the chief business of life appeared to be volunteer drills and reviews. My father was a lieutenant in our local corps, and I was ever at his side in those midsummer marchings and counter-marchings. This volunteering was not altogether playing at soldiers. Our volunteer had some work to perform wholly unknown to the volunteer of Queen Victoria. He had to pipe-clay his white breeches and gaiters. He had to polish the bright barrel of his musket till he could see his face in it. "Brown Bess" was a later invention. He had to grease and flour his hair like a modern footman ; and then to wash the grease and flour out, till he was fit to stand at the counter and sit at the desk, like an honest tradesman, He had no railway to carry him to a review; but marched through the night to Bulmarsh Heath, near Reading, to take his place amongst the other bold warriors of Berkshire. The discipline was not very exact. I have laughed, although I was scanda lised, to see an impudent corporal play tricks with his lieutenant's queue. Rods were sometimes left in the bar rel when a volley was fired, to the no small danger of the colonel in front. We had a yeomanry corps, composed of the choicest spirits of our town. It was commanded by a pursy wine -merchant, who was not so well mounted as his men. Oa more than one occasion, when he headed a charge, they would open right and left, and leave him behind, when hs roared, " Unparalleled in the annals of war, gentlemen." Full of fun as they were, our volunteers would have fought to death if the necessity had come. The volunteer of my boyhood was not altogether unprepared for war ; for there was a ball practice at a target fixed in a chalk-pit. But, as far as I recollect, the hits were as few as the ordinary calculation as to the musket-firing in a field of battle—that not one shot in a hundred told. But what of that? There was the same emulation as I have rijoiced to look upon in the noble rivalry of the Wimbledon meeting of 1863. Though sixty years have made all the difference ,between the musket and the rifle, and more difference in the skill of the volunteer the emulation both of one period and the other is derived from our ancestry. From first to last, we have never found the interest of this work flag in the perusal of it. It is precisely the very kind of autobiography we should have expected from the hand of Charles Knight—un affected, manly, vivacious, entirely devoid of self , I glorification, undisfigured by evidences of designed reticence or intentional concealment, and this for the simple reason enough that a manly, truthful, honest, open nature like that of Charles Knight had nothing whatever to conceal. Enough however, if we close these remarks of ours with two very brief but sufficiently significant observations—each of them distinctive of the man—each of them a very noble panygeric. Firstly, that it will be remem bered of Charles Knight that he was the friend and fellow laboutir of Brougham. Secondly, and finally, that it was more than a mere radiant witticism or Douglas Jerrold's when—on being asked one night by our author, on their way home together, if he (Jerrold) 'could suggest a fitting epitaph for his companion's tombstone—Jerrold answered at the streetcorner, with a hearty grasp of the hand at parting—" Good Knight !" Toddles's Highland Tour. With 21 illustrations. Pp. 150. Routledge and Co. Under this ridiculous title —as, " The Strange Adventures of Richard Toddles and Tom Stepwell during their Journey in Scotland"—the reader is here presented with a really useful as well as entertaining guide book, showing him the way to a very cheap and, al, the same time, a very delightful excursion. Daring the Nine D iys occupied by Toddles and Stopwell in traversing the route marked out for themselves north of the Tweed—these two excursionists certainly contrive to make a Nine Day's Wonder of it, by seeing so much and paying so little. For, which in effect among the sights that ought to be seen upon a Scottish tour do these knapsacked lowlanders not see yonder in the land of cakes ? Loch Lomond, Glencoe, Fort - William, Ben Nevis, Killiecrankie, the Trosachs, Holyrood, Melrose, Abootsford, Dryburgh—with a multitude of other famous localities, hill and dale, river and lake, inhabited building and deserted ruin—Toddles and Stepwell visit together. And yet—at the end of all their pleasant sightseeing and gad ding about, hither and thither, they have spent absolutely not a ten-pound note a-piece! The sum total of their expenditure from the houw of their starting upon their holiday expedition to that of their return homewards, being jotted down, item by item, during the course of their nar rative—the sum total being given upon the last page as, to a nicety, just exactly 163. 2d. It we are not very much mistaken, Mr M'Connell's pencil has contributed to this pleasant little gossip ping guide book through Scotland two or three at least out of the twenty-one illustrations scattered thOugh it. IN TERESTIIN P DISCOVERY OF RCoMAN REMAINS. —The excavations ; ..71 Hot Bath-street for the new Hospital, the foundations of wing of the Bath United . , large Roman building have I:: eon recently discovered. These foundations are exceedingly ,strong, and indicat e that the building to which they belonged oust have been one of some importance. The base of pillar, tu:ned upside down, and built into the foundation, was likewise found, and appears to have formed part of even an older structure. This week a further interesting discovery has been made, in the course of excavating the site of the house lately in the occupation of Mr William Foote, Lower Borough-walls. This discovery consists of a large portion of a beautiful tasse• lated pavement. The pavement seems to have formed the flooring of a room about 12 feet square, and rests upon pil lars and hollow tiles—the tiles having been used fur heating purposes. The design of the pavement is different to any found in Bath before : in the censre is a rose, which is surrounded by several borders of geometrical pattern. Enough of the pavement remains to enable an accurate sketch of its entire design to be taken. The foundation of the dwelling just re moved was built upon this hollow Roman floor, and the pave went is in consequence much crushed and thrown out of its level. A. second pavement, composed of larger tesserce, ad joins this first one, and uppears to have been the floor or a passage or vestibule leading to the apartment. Tracings et the designs are being taken, and the interesting remains will be preserved with jealous care. Some fragments of Roman pottery have also been turned up in the course of the exca vations. The discovery has come just in time for the meet ing of the British A: sniation, and is to be regarded as a valuable addition to the relics connected with she Roman occupation of the city of King Bladud.—.Batis Chronicle. A call of £5 per share has been made by the Continental Bank Corapration, to be paid on or before the 10th proximo?. Daring the last few days there has been very little animation in the Foreign and Colonial Pro duce Markets, Sugars have barely sustained former prices, while coffee has also been rather cheaper. Tea has been in moderato request at steady rates, while in rice, fruit, sp i ce s, and tai''-ow there have oeen no dealings of importance. P.Y.C. on the }pot is quoted 41s 9J, and last three mouths deli very 43. s 9d per cwt. ‘13111,4 eirtilbr HER MAJESTY, OSBORNE, August 11. Her Majesty and the Royol Family drove out in the morning and afternoon of yesterday. The Right Hon. E. Cardwell arrived at Osb en orne, and had the honour of dining with the Que and Royal Family. Prince and Princess Leiningen also dined with her Majesty. His Royal Highness Prince William of Prussia) attended by Baroness Dobeneck and Major Von Schweinitz, left Osborne this morning on his return to Germany. Her Royal Highness the P.-incess Mary w ill leave The Cottage, Kew, to-day, on a visit to their Roll a Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Walu s itt Scotland. The Duke and Duchess of Manchester have been oltou entertaining the following company at Kimb Castle, dating the week ;—Marie March ioness Of Ailesbury, the Marquis of Hartington, It he Earl of Coventry, the Earl and Countess of West' moreland, Viscount Canterbury, Lord ProbY, George Fitz william, Mr Leslie, &c. The Duchess of Wellington ha© left Apsley Nouse for Glasgow, to meet his grace, who left touts a feW days since. Maria Marchioness of Ailesbury has left bolton Castle, on a visit to the Earl of Sandwich 6 Hinchinbrooke. The Earl and Countess Spencer have been enter taining a large party at Althorpe Park during th e week. The Earl of Coventry left town yesterday for Hungerford, Berkshire. The Earl and Countess of Morley and 18 '1 3 ; Catherine have left town for Sunning Hill; Viscount Boringdon has left for Scotland for the shootiag season. Count M.ffei has returned to town from c oves to take the direction of the Italian Legation dal the absence of his Excellency the Marquis d'Azegli.. Lord L!anover has left town for the Conduce" her ladyship is at Llanover, near Abergaven e Y: ve Lord and Lady Templemore will shortly l a d. Bruton-street for Dunbrody Park, county Weifcl THE PRINCE OF WALES AND THE SC OTTISIE ARCHERS.---It is intended to present a bonnet by the Society of the Ancient Archers of Kilwinning t° aw- , Prince of 'Wales on having accepted the ()face of p (which the Prince Consort also held). The bonnet i s e coolL° quisitely got up, and reflects the greatest credit on 0 — ellr cerned. It is in shape the same as worn by t he Bre th lined while shooting at papingo, and the inside is white satin, and in the centre the Prince of Wales' cost dost arms is beautifully embroidered, and belo w the ver n " a i t ce dh.tizend,l7nbll,llB9,34,—Dthaeildya.Rteevwiehwen. t h e society was oriel ONE OF THE HINDOO G O DS OF DEA"—pp( .°.....A STRANGE AND HORRIBLE IDOL : 4 , Wita large large protruding eyes, prominent nose, curved at the nos trils and point, wide mouth, thick, sensual -looking liPkst. two upper and two lower tusks, it presented a Oa tb , ea able and by no means pleasing appearance. was a tiara studded with cleverly chiselled death's be s " B ; the long earn were pierced with ornaments very mi nute cut, and from the cartilage of both were suspended hideou skulls. Numbers of chains were hung round the neck, and„ a loose scam fell across the broad chest from the loft shoulder to the right. Massive bracelets en circled the writs and biceps, and the right arm was slightly raised, or. giving emphasis to an oracle. A belt of skulls encircled the corpulent stomach, and the left hand rested on a walk very rear d ing-stick or sceptre of stone,—Mr d'Almeida's book de scriptive of " Life in Java," recently published by kiu rs and Blackett. SINGULAR WlLLS.—There 14tely died at SzeP ea Vallarya an old man of 78 years of age, whose will con" tained a clause leaving 100,000 cigars for those who Laigh t attend his funeral. The eccentio testator also expressed his desire that his friends should not leave the house of mourning without drinking to his memory all the win ° left in his cellar. It is said that the wish of the de' ceased was entirely fulfilled.—Brazil and River Plata Mail. THE NEW ATTRACTION AT THE ALHAMBRA' The " little" wonder in every sense of the word for T the lady is only 4 feet 8 inches in height—Marga ret Douglas, is hastening merrily and gamely on to the cony pletion of her herculean task of walking a thousand miles e i w n ffoo a rrltd t h —o o r u wi s .ah a to n i g, d uin c e o t n ihn s e sc oth u r t ei i n v i e on h o o f urs. The bulletins ann° 2nes e champion shh i f e e mote thele pedestrian most PePx the performance of 192 miles, but there is no a WOO °' " professors," will bring her task to the same successful . issue she did in Australia. The daily and nightly increas ing number of visitors attest in the most unmistakeable) manner the awakening interest of the public to wit ness the little lady's performance. DANGERS OF A " HEADER" IN sgALLO W WATER.—We hear almost every year of some ious or even fatal accident at watering Pla ces arisi from the dangerous habit of plunging head toreinos: into that is too shallow. This should never be done al l ' p r ioefn c t b e d e not in g ood known health, o th w e less the water is ac least 4 or 5 feet deep. Surgical booka are full of cases of broken vertebrae, but unluckily they are . in his edition of Chelius, tells of a sailor, 40 years of üb, e ' sea to bathe, a sail being spread a few feet below the surface coming in contact with the water or sail, to receive the bathers and to protect them irons the backs ov. It is supposed that his head was violently throgn ° i diately ho persons jlmp ewdhhoe headlong g the tro we: tsihoinr. 5 o tit, 9 ra CI es became ',motionless. When got on deck, al l ' —e e - e, l' d of the limbs and trunk below tho shoulders Wore observed to be paralysed, and respiration was performed by t re diaphragm alone. The circulation and temperature Wteot, natural, and the senses perfect. in a few hours aft er came more frequent till he died at t c h o e min occurrence of the accident, vomiting as 11,.. the to:taucee expiration oticia7 hours. Upon examination, the fourth and fifth ceL vial a forced P"- vertebra) were found completely crushed an , A ja w wards on the spinal marrow, which was crushed ao' 403 . rated. This preparation is in St. Thomas's lki lls , a 6 $ Another man threw himself into a river to bathe fry Another height of 7or S feet, the water being only 3 feet deep. to enced, pod be .: came up to the surface and immediately fell back e) ,to bottom. The bystanders observing he made no atteetiPtite swim, drew him out and lifted him insensible nr.ndoi, bank. He d•ed .n 10 hours and a half after the a ccl ie are and after death it was found that the fifth cervical verrtof was broken across, and the two pieces wer e coroP' s , 0 , crushed in upon the spinal cord. So bathers beware eflo. "header" in shallow water. Plunge deep or not t ' —Medical limes and Gazette. T, de ()( STAINED GLASS COMPETITION.-- 1 . They --°I. • 0 to the Committee of Council on Educa.tion sir : , r 0 obtain for the South Kensington Museum a design t o .. x stained glass window,. having a northern semicircular head, and of the following dinria_sioen:7— .107; 181 t 9in high to crown of arch, by lift wide. '2. Th - nd ~ may be seen on a staircase at the north-west corner of_ to; Great Northern Court. The architectural decorations 0f,,0 light , w l :_, staircase will be of an Ital an Renaissance ch.tracter. "tri-',.f subject of the design is furnished by the 38th chapte4o Ecclesiasticus, verse 24 to the end of the chapter. 3 . . I _ l o design is to be on the scale of one inch to the foot, t a i _, coloured. It is to be accompanied by a full. Bizet cartoon the desig,n a a sufficient portion to show she o ec t • to and a specimen of a portion of the desig a exe cn ti e r a t oto ~ ,p er r to to glass, of the full size. 4. The competition is of all nations. 5, A sum of £4O will be aw arded for o f d .e 6 2 h o i g i e n r t which he appe arsnext beat designb o . most s T u h i t e a b j l h e d , g a e pods:: ; sni I; strut t e d to award the p rizes to the designs 001e19_11.101 ar ti s tic merits, wit hout reference to the probable r 4 a execution. 7. Each design must be tweet:opal:lW'; 13 be the cost at which the design '1 the sealed xecu tenderd g teexe cution is likely to take, a r ': " 00 .. executed, the s ti t ra tte c i 3 n the name and addres s of the artist. 8. The demigno a_ llo3 0$ ders must be sent to the South Kensington Nitta' e w ill 1865. 9. lO T . h T e ri fe to w 1 3 ,0 dr be published hereafter. or before May 19 prizes are awarded will become the property of th e re. unt l partment, which however does not blnd itself le c 100 either of them.—By order of the Committee of ‘..e Education. , e • WO °. FRIGHTFUL OCCURRENCE AT GARBO- at , , t ee —On Wednesday night Mr James George hneamdeessigol the jag; too deputy corner for East Middlesex, held an itig ui ,,: ‘ , deat h Dock Hotel, Upper East Smithfield, lostresPectingt 1, , we of William Reardon, aged 45 years. who neceaoe4 under the follo‘siLg frightful circumstances :e was or was a labourer. On Friday afternoon last h . a : ra oor ecl gaged with other men on board the ship Clit tl2 . se eith: alongside the Carron Wharf, Lower es,..l'ont.,tylot field (near St. Katharine's Docks) in raising as a c ran e ' pig iron from the hold of the vessel by mar; tool cal l ; the men overloaded one portion, and 01 °' tbaY la° When d e ali tioned by Mr. Hickman, the stevedore. crane .0 . Itieli.rvaset do raised about a ton of metal the chain of the a:decesse: snapped, and the whole mass of iron fell ti o pn . til e t.rain e y c t hav e i '' the lower pert cif the vessel. Death Inu!ii crushing his head and scattering portiono t hrouipogali.• taneoui. VerdieVriceidental death. e . 00. D EsTATE o e the The Legislature of the colony of Antigticat h a ve co oing ' WEST INDIAN E. of t.,.ve ado pts 41,3 above acts, and passed the USUAI local. a f o r same into execution.